765. The Apartment

765. Questions

347 square meters, and two floors?

Su's father and mother were stunned.

Even a single floor was almost as large as a small villa.

But in the central district, the closer you got to downtown, the less likely you were to find a villa. It had nothing to do with money—there simply weren't any, and you couldn't get approval to build one either.

It wasn't a matter of money, nor did power or influence have anything to do with it. Anyone who dared build a detached villa downtown would be practically waving a red flag, sure to draw a barrage of public criticism.

Based on the half year Su's father and mother had spent learning about the secondhand housing market, Tianhua Jingshe's large apartments were undoubtedly a rare find in the central district. With high-end units like these, every one sold meant one less available.

Large units with a floor area exceeding a hundred square meters were hard to sell because of their hefty price tags. Developers, eager to turn over their capital as quickly as possible, would rather squeeze more marketable small units out of the shared areas. Few were willing to build large apartments costing tens of millions, let alone the rare expansive units like these.

Every extra square meter of floor area meant tens of thousands more yuan. That was why you so often saw awkward layouts where the bathroom and kitchen were separated from the living quarters, windowless bathrooms, and even windowless kitchens. These bizarre designs were all the result of developers' meticulous calculations, designed to fleece ordinary people of their hard-earned money through floor area and shared spaces.

Was it really impossible to design a place with windows in both the kitchen and bathroom and south-facing bedrooms?

Obviously, it wasn't difficult. But that